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As my orgasm starts to build once more my teeth lengthen at my request and I grab the back of Dar’s neck bringing him in close so that I can sink them into his shoulder. One particularly good thrust sends me over the peak and I bite down hard. My teeth go in like a hot knife through butter and I taste his copper blood in my mouth.

His shouts echo throughout the room before I feel the slight pinch and his teeth find my neck. Another orgasm rolls through me as his pleasurable venom floods my veins, but beyond that something else clicks inside for me. A feeling that I’ve felt once before and didn’t recognize until now. A permanent bond and connection flows between us and I can feel all the love this man has for me.

All too soon though things start to darken and as usual when my vampire lover bites me I fall asleep peacefully in his embrace.

Chapter Seven

BELLAMY

My chest hurts when I think about Jade, but that’s nothing compared to what I feel when I watch my friend and Alpha fall apart before my eyes. One of the strongest men I’ve ever known and he’s been reduced to someone I don’t even recognize. Maybe I’m lucky that she rejected me before we could mate? It hurts but I can’t imagine how much worse Silas feels right now.

He’s been sleeping for hours and some of that is because of everything that he’s been through. Captured and clearly not fed well as I can see a lot of his bones showing. I wanted to ask what all happened but with the way he’s withdrawn I was afraid to hear the answers.

Could it possibly be even worse than I’m imagining?

Being in the Marines I’d seen soldiers who were rescued from behind enemy lines. Hell, I led some of the missions, and they all looked just as haunted as Silas did when I found him with the broken mirror in the bathroom earlier. It couldn’t all be just because of Jade’s rejection could it?

What did I really know about it though? I’m only feeling a fraction of what he is and I have to say it’s fucking painful. But I have to believe that Jace is right and all is not lost or I will be right there joining Silas in his misery. The pack, though it may be filled with a bunch of selfish pricks, still has some good people and we have to hold it together until we can figure out what to do with Silas.

There has to be a way to make Jade see that having wolves as mates is not the horrible fate she imagines it to be. We could take care of her and protect her and none of us would make her quit her job if she truly loves it. We aren’t cavemen. Just a chance to build a life with her would be a fucking blessing.

If she didn’t want to live in the pack house we have plenty of land we could build a separate residence so she wouldn’t have to deal with the everyday bull of some of the wolves that live here. Basically we’d be willing to give her anything she fucking wants if she’d just give us a damn chance.

“Hey, is he awake?” Jace asks, poking his head in the door and looking between the chair I’d placed by it and the bed where Silas lays curled up in a ball sleeping.

“No, but it wouldn’t hurt for him to wake up for a few minutes, he’s been sleeping since you left,” I inform him and he gives me a sad smile before coming in and closing the door behind himself, cutting off the light from the hallways once more.

I blink my eyes as Jace hits the switch on his way by and floods the room with bright light. A groan from the bed tells me that Silas wasn’t prepared for the shock of the lighting change either.

“Hey I need you to wake so you can make an Alpha decision for me and then you can go back to sleep, also I have some news,” Jace says plopping himself down on the edge of the mattress not treating Silas with the kid gloves that I’d been all afternoon.

“What,” is all our fearless leader says, as he sits up and moves back to prop himself up against his large dark wood headboard.

“Good morning sunshine,” Jace snarks and it’s my turn to groan. This is why I was picked to stay with Silas and not Jace. Jace’s attitude and lack of empathy isn’t really helpful in a time like this but it’s all he knows.

“Just ask what you need to ask and then leave me alone,” Silas growls but Jace doesn’t even flinch at our Alpha’s fury.

“Dell wants Sam and her mates to take Scarlett back to Sunset peak with them so when the witches retaliate she’ll be safe. Dell and Alec will stay here to help us,” he says, and personally I think it's a great idea. I haven’t spent much time with the child but from what I hear she’s taken a shine to Sam so that’s probably best for her at least for now.

“That’s fine, I would prefer her to be safe than be with me. Especially with how I’m feeling right now,” he says, sounding for a moment like the selfless man that we’ve come to love and follow.

“I was pretty sure that’s what you’d say but I had to make sure,” Jace says, getting up from the bed and heading for the door.

“Wait. What was your news?” Silas asks, sounding more awake and less angry than he did before.

Maybe I can actually get him to eat something soon?

“Oh I took Scarlett to see Jade and Mila—”

“How is she? Is she okay?” Silas asks, his voice cracking, showing us a little bit of the pain that he has inside.

“She seems fine physically, just tired like you. She’s quite good with the kid and beautiful, I can see exactly why she has you tied up in knots,” Jace says casually and I can’t help but roll my eyes at his complete disregard for Silas’ bond with Jade.

“She’s my mate and she left me like I’m a piece of trash, I would say tied up is a fucking understatement,” Silas growls, his eyes showing his wolf beneath the surface.

“Jade didn’t reject you because she doesn’t want you. She’s fucking confused with everything that happened and Darius has been her boyfriend for a year now. Of course she’d run to him in her fear, geez. I get that you’re hurting, we’re all hurting but you need to start thinking past your own pain Silas if you want to get her back,” Jace yells back and for a moment the room is silent.

“Fuck, I’m sorry I know you’re right. It just hurts so bad it’s hard to see straight,” Silas says with a heavy sigh.

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